Tidawhitney Lek (b. 1992, Long Beach, CA) is a Cambodian-American painter. Her work plays with narrative and the everyday experience of a first-generation American born to immigrant parents. Her bright and somber paintings present nuances of domesticity. Figures and hands interact in her compositions as cultural Southeast-Asian elements echo through mundane objects. Lek reinvents the conventional mediums of pastel, acrylic, and oil paints on canvas, interchanging textures as pictorial spaces recede and soften. Lek’s work has been exhibited at Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY & Los Angeles, CA; the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL; the Armory Show, New York, NY; and Made in LA 2023 at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, among other galleries and institutions. Her work has been acquired by Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; East West Bank Collection, Pasadena, CA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; K11 Foundation, Hong Kong; ICA Miami, Miami, FL; Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.